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Syngonium podophyllum

Botanic Family

Araceae

Author

Schott

Common Names

• Goosefoot Plant
• Arrowhead Vine
• Nephthytis
• African Evergreen

Geographical Habitats

• Antilles
• Belize
• Bolivia
• Acre
• Amapá
• Amazonas
• Bahia
• Pará
• Rio de Janeiro
• Rondonia - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• Dominica
• Dominican Republic
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• French Guiana
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Honduras
• Leeward Islands
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Suriname
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Venezuela
• Virgin Islands

Natural Habitats

• Tropical rain forest
• secondary forest
• floodplain forest
• swamp forest
• thickets
• woodland
• disturbed forest
• creekside
• coastal

Flowering Times

• Summer Jan
• Feb
• May
• Jul
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• May
• Jul
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov

Root-climbing hemi-epiphytic evergreen vine with juvenile leaves green or variegated white, adult leaves 3-parted 5-lobed. Inflorescence to 11 spikes, 110mm long greenish-white pendulous flower cream or pink inside, green outside, spathe sometimes yellow, tube 25mm long, 20mm wide, limb 50mm long, 35mm wide, red or yellow fruit to 55mm long, spadix white or yellow 15mm long

Further References

• Bailey 1976
• Beckett 1990
• Huxley 1992
• RHS A-Z
• NYBG
• NYBG
• Mobot
• Llamas 2003
• Neotrop
• Bodkin
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• VOPR
• FOPE
• Kew
• Standley